Aussie women beat NZ ahead of World Cup

Australia looks in good shape heading into the upcoming women's cricket one-day World Cup after a seven-run win over New Zealand secured a 3-1 Rose Bowl series victory on Wednesday.

The Southern Stars scored 9-267 at North Sydney Oval after acting captain Alex Blackwell opted to bat first and New Zealand replied with 8-260.

Australia completed three straight wins following an opening game loss in a high-scoring series squeezed into eight days.

The players will complete their domestic competition then play three Twenty20 internationals against New Zealand next month and some warmup one-day games in India.

"We've got some things that we need to work on and we've got time to do it," Australian coach Cathryn Fitzpatrick told AAP.

All four games produced some fine batting and deserved to be watched by far more than the pitifully small crowds that attended the weekday fixtures.

Australia's Meg Lanning scored 300 runs at 75.00 and at an amazing strike rate of 143.54, while New Zealand captain Suzie Bates (274 runs at 91.33), and teammate and player of the series Amy Satterthwaite (254 at 63.50) were also outstanding.

Between them they crushed any remaining sentiment that women can't produce high scoring one-day totals, as six of the eight innings totalled over 245 each.

New Zealand produced the two biggest partnerships of game four, with Nicola Browne (63 off 71) and Katie Perkins (40 off 61) adding 87 and Bates (54 off 70) and Satterthwaite (38 off 48) putting on 75.

They were well placed at 3-220 in the 43rd over but lost 5-34.

"We knew if we could put pressure on them we could create some opportunities and that was the case," Fitzpatrick said.